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All donations of 10€ and up will receive a digital "thank you" postcard with images donated by artists and photographers in solidarity with the project.

> 22 Backers

Contributing € 20

Collectives in Action Kit

Stickers and postcards from Collectives in Action, sent to your home.

> 18 Backers

Contributing € 40

MESOAMÉRICA RESISTE poster

Double-sided, folding poster illustrating stories of resistance, resilience, and solidarity from Mexico to Colombia. A graphic more than 9 years in the making produced by the Beehive Design Collective. + Collectives in Action, sent to your home.

> 16 Backers

Contributing € 50

Mobile Laboratory T-shirt

A t-shirt designed by the Collectives in Action + Collectives in Action Kit, sent to your home.

We'll put your name or the logo of your organization or collective in a designated space on our website, as well as in a space dedicated to collaborators in the mobile laboratory. + Poster + T-shirt + Collectives in Action Kit, sent to your home.

> 04 Backers

Contributing € 500

Visit the Autonomous Center

Come visit the Autonomous Center for the Intercultural Creation of Appropriate Technologies (CACITA) in Oaxaca, Mexico for 3 - 4 days, with room and board. We'll share our 10+ years of experience cultivating grassroots alternatives, as well as practical knowledge of eco-technologies. + Recognition by CACITA + Graphic poster + T-shirt + Collectives in Action Kit, sent to your home.

> 04 Backers

Contributing € 800

Join the Mobile Laboratory

Come and form part of the Caravana for the well-being of Mesoamerican peoples in resistance for one week. We will share the experiences and alternatives that we build from Mexico to Panama.

We will document and share autonomous alternatives for well-being in communities throughout Mesoamerica. The mobile laboratory will travel to indigenous communities, barrios, and farming villages in Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama, seeking to demonstrate through the voices of those directly affected how autonomous alternatives are cultivated in the face of territorial displacement. We will chronicle and foster the use of independent media and eco-technologies as tools that strengthen communal well-being.

This work is being realized by Collectives in Action, an open network of collectives, organizations, and individuals from Mexico, Germany, the United States, and other parts of the world, who apply and promote the appropriation of these tools.

The caravan for the well-being of Mesoamerican peoples in resistance is being planned in collaboration with communities from Mexico to Panama and will head south from Mexico during the first trimester of 2015.

Description of the project. Main features, strengths and differentials.

We will promote the application of socially appropriate technologies, or eco-technologies: alternative and non-contaminating tools adapted to the well-being and self-determination of each community. These tools include pedal-powered machines, solar energy, ecological toilets, and systems for the collection and recycling of water, amongst others.

We will collectively produce community-based radio and television, asking questions and listening to the voices of the peoples of Mesoamerica. We also will broadcast the bottom-up alternatives that communities generate in the face of the plundering of natural resources which takes place in the name of human development.

Why this is important

We seek to generate consciousness by broadcasting the voices of communities from Mexico to Panama. We will share skills and tools with the aim of strengthening communities that are struggling to preserve indigenous ways of being and protect natural resources as a common good.

Goals of the crowdfunding campaign

The goal of this campaign is to raise the minimum funds necessary for the purchase of a used vehicle, which will bring us to the communities we are collaborating with.

If we reach our maximum goal, we will transform the vehicle into a mobile laboratory, equipped with a radio cabin and a studio for community-based video and television. The laboratory will also serve as a demonstrative center of eco-technologies, equipped with tools to realize workshops and supply energy.

Team and experience

Our team is enriched by the experience of collectives, organizations, and individuals from Mexico, Germany, and the United States, amongst other countries, who are dedicated to the grassroots use of independent media and socially appropriate technologies, and who form Collectives in Action for the Well-being of Mesoamerican Peoples in Resistance:

CACITA: A collective in Oaxaca, Mexico, with more than 10 years of experience developing eco-technologies such as pedal-powered machines.
transgalaxia e.V.: A collective in Northeast Germany that promotes exchange between social movements in Latin America and Germany.
Los Tejemedios: An national articulation of individuals and collectives that produce independent media in Mexico.
The Beehive Collective: The Beehive Collective: A U.S. arts and graphics collective whose “Mesoamérica Resiste” project illustrates stories of resistance, resilience, and solidarity from Mexico to Colombia.

Shared materials

Knowledge of Eco-technologies

Information in digital archives about the construction of eco-technologies, such as pedal-powered machines and ecological toilets, amongst others. Photos and videos of eco-tecnologies workshops. Open license and accessible at http://cacita.org.mx.

CC - Attribution-NonCommercial

Creative Commons License with attribution that does not permit commercial use

Communal Media Library

A source of information from the voices of Mesoamerican peoples, with audio, video, reports, etc. Open license and accessible at http://caravanaparaelbuenviviren.wordpress.com/, as well as on the independent media portal http://lostejemedios.wix.com/noticias.

CC - Attribution-NonCommercial

Creative Commons License with attribution that does not permit commercial use

Rewards

Contributing € 10

Digital Thank You Postcard

All donations of 10€ and up will receive a digital "thank you" postcard with images donated by artists and photographers in solidarity with the project.

> 22 Backers

Contributing € 20

Collectives in Action Kit

Stickers and postcards from Collectives in Action, sent to your home.

> 18 Backers

Contributing € 40

MESOAMÉRICA RESISTE poster

Double-sided, folding poster illustrating stories of resistance, resilience, and solidarity from Mexico to Colombia. A graphic more than 9 years in the making produced by the Beehive Design Collective. + Collectives in Action, sent to your home.

> 16 Backers

Contributing € 50

Mobile Laboratory T-shirt

A t-shirt designed by the Collectives in Action + Collectives in Action Kit, sent to your home.

We'll put your name or the logo of your organization or collective in a designated space on our website, as well as in a space dedicated to collaborators in the mobile laboratory. + Poster + T-shirt + Collectives in Action Kit, sent to your home.

> 04 Backers

Contributing € 500

Visit the Autonomous Center

Come visit the Autonomous Center for the Intercultural Creation of Appropriate Technologies (CACITA) in Oaxaca, Mexico for 3 - 4 days, with room and board. We'll share our 10+ years of experience cultivating grassroots alternatives, as well as practical knowledge of eco-technologies. + Recognition by CACITA + Graphic poster + T-shirt + Collectives in Action Kit, sent to your home.

> 04 Backers

Contributing € 800

Join the Mobile Laboratory

Come and form part of the Caravana for the well-being of Mesoamerican peoples in resistance for one week. We will share the experiences and alternatives that we build from Mexico to Panama.